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Cynthia A. Huang, Mitchell O'Hara-Wild, Rob J. Hyndman, Matthew Kay: ggtime: A Grammar of Temporal Graphics https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25656 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25656 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.25656
With colleagues across ornithological societies and led by Nathan #Thayer, Ashley #Dayer, and Dai #Shizuka, I'm happy to share this first publication from some collaborative research we began in 2022 to study the role of #belonging in #ornithology: lnkd.in/gYGQzHer.
#datavis of the month
This is a great compilation, thanks. Not sure if this issue is already considered, but hyperrealistic AI-generated images may increase threats to wildlife for different reasons.
See: bsky.app/profile/mong...
And this paper cited on that Mongabay piece:
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
R Coding for Ecology chapter on cblindplotR 🎨
Shows how to create colourblind-friendly maps and visualizations in R.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
#RStats #DataViz #Accessibility #OpenScience #RSpatial
Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses
The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
We should not use gen AI to “hone” or “clarify” our writing. That’s part of the valuable struggle! Sitting with and fighting ideas to make them clearer is part of the gift of science. It helps us become better communicators because we’ve been in the trenches with our ideas
This is DELIGHTFUL and I highly recommend a scroll through the whole thing: neal.fun/size-of-life/ 🧪
Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The first study to survey insect populations on a continental scale finds no evidence of widespread decline, at least over a recent 10-year period. https://scim.ag/4pnb6hN
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
This thread:
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
There is much wisdom and vision here ... "multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a “dangerous tool” that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science." #TheoryShouldAlsoGuideModelSelection 🧪
Check out the new Key Biodiversity Areas website at www.keybiodiversityareas.org. Helpful guidance on what KBAs are, how they are being used by governments & other end-users, how to get involved, unprecedented access to the full dataset etc. @keybiodiversity.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"
Population-level migration modeling of North American birds through data integration with BirdFlow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....
Sampling bias obscures biodiversity patterns, reveals data gaps in priority conservation areas: a call for improved documentation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....
A black vulture sits on a sign that says "black vulture notice."
Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️
1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08....
Are you a WOS member interested in generative AI? We are seeking volunteers for a new ad-hoc committee to draft a policy around its use for the society.
I think you might have posted the wrong figure. Giant panda populations in the Caribbean?
Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions
@tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
paper on linguistic injustice on the dominance of English
"The present situation is a clear, unequivocal example of linguistic injustice
All the costs of having a common language in science are borne by non-native English-speaking scientists, implying unfair cooperation in obtaining a common good (i.e. a common language)"
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
